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[#294] Gary Farber: I find it glorious that the phrase you Googled was "Jets blasting, Bat Durston came". It may be one of the most adorable sentences I've ever read....
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[#227] Gary Farber: Galaxy magazine used to run an ad: "You'll never see it in Galaxy!" It consisted of a paragraph from a western with all the nouns changed to "sciencefictional" sounding words. The ad copy is on Wikipedia, and...
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Speaking of terrible SF, I'd highly recommend Fred Clarke's epic critique of "Left Behind"; in this instance, the authors are writing SF (mass disappearances! mind control!), but steadfastly refuse to believe that they are. The worldbuilding is unbelievably shoddy, because...

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Charlie Stross commented on Why I hate Star Trek
TwistedByKnaves: spoiler sorted without deleting whole comment. No, it's not that the science has to be accurate: it's that it doesn't contradict what we know to be true without providing some sort of plausible explanation. Clones aren't science fiction these days -- heard of the Roslyn Institute? (Actually they never were science fiction: odds are you know a few, you just call them "homozygous [identical] twins".) And we know from observing them that the memory thing isn't true -- not without some extra plausible mechanism. (As for the lunar He3 canard, you might find the discussion (here) illuminating. Points to...
Charlie Stross commented on Why I hate Star Trek
Jones @321: I'm quite happy to give a free pass to artistic license. However, what I mostly see isn't artistic license; it's old-fashioned ignorance of the kind that you might expect from a committee effort where everything has to be dumbed-down enough for the dumbest member of the committee to sign off on it. Loganprometheus: you see the human condition in those quotes -- I don't; I see cheap rhetorical tricks and push-button emotional manipulation of a rather crude variety....
Charlie Stross commented on Why I hate Star Trek
Danny @331: I'm interested in seeing what they do with the remake of "The Prisoner" (although I have a twitchy reflexive suspicion that they need burning at the stake RIGHT NOW for transplanting it away from Portmeirion). But I generally find 2-D short duration space travel between planets at what appears to be aircraft speed blows my suspension of disbelief in about 0.025 seconds (see also @329, or "Saturn's Children" for my take on space travel). loganprometheus: you're still missing the point. I haven't seen Bab5, I don't hate it, I'm just utterly uninterested in watching it because even the...
Charlie Stross commented on Why I hate Star Trek
Hypnogourd? No! All glory to the Hypnotoad!...
Charlie Stross commented on Why I hate Star Trek
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Common Misconceptions About Publishing—a series of essays about the industry I work in.
How I Got Here In The End —my non-writing autobiography, or what I did before becoming a full-time writer.
Unwirer—an experiment in weblog mediated collaborative fiction.
Shaping the Future—a talk I gave on the social implications of Moore's Law.
Japan: first impressions — or, what I did on my holidays
Inside the MIT Media Lab—what it’s like to spend a day wandering around the Media Lab.
The High Frontier, Redux — space colonization: feasible or futile?
“Nothing like this will be built again”—inside a nuclear reactor complex.
Old blog—2003-2006 (RIP)

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